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Forum Permanente on the debate over the Humboldt - Forum in Berlin

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Forum Permanente participated between the third and fifth of December 2015 of the international conference Perspektiven 15 “Museums, Media, and People” hold at the Humboldt University in Berlin. The event was made of debates and seminars about the Humboldt-Forum and the reconstruction of the Berlin City Palace, half destroyed during World War 2 and rebuilt by the communist regime with modernist architecture to withhold the East German Parliament until the reunification in 1989. In order to expose and bring this conference closer to the Brazilian public, as well as this ambitious project that will contemplate the collections held by five museums located on the famous “Berlin Museum Island”.  Fórum Permanente translated the description of the conferences and its objectives to Portuguese, adding also further information about this project.

Martin Gorssmann, founder and chief curator of the Forum Permanente and then Director at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo (USP) participated on the 4 of December 2015 in a panel with German filmmaker Alexander Kluge, the presentation was followed by a debate between them and the directors at the Humboldt Forum, Horst Bredekemp and Hermann Parzinger.

From mid September to the end of 2016, Martin Grossmann will take part as visiting- researcher, in the research group Interdisciplinary Laboratory Image Knowledge Gestaltung, a "Cluster of Excellence" of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Currently, this Cluster is starting the development of a new field of research “Collection & Exhibition”. This major field will connect the history of scientific and academic collections, theory and cultural technic of selection and exhibition, with the challenges faced by science researches and communications now a day. Together with researchers and curators of the Cluster and the center Hermann von Helmholtz Zentrum für Kulturtechnik of the same university, during this 3-month period, Grossman will work on the challenges brought by this new frontier of research, seeking to produce and promote new implication both theoretical and practical over the future of collections and exhibitions. More specifically, it will be intrinsically related to the development of ideas and actions for the integration of the Humboldt-laboratory to the Humboldt-Forum, this new museums being constructed on the Berlin Museum Island, with it’s opening scheduled to 2020.

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Martin Gorssmann, founder and chief curator of the Forum Permanente and then Director at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of São Paulo (USP) participated on the 4 of December 2015 in a panel with German filmmaker Alexander Kluge, the presentation was followed by a debate between them and the directors at the Humboldt Forum, Horst Bredekemp and Hermann Parzinger.

From mid September to the end of 2016, Martin Grossmann will take part as visiting- researcher, in the research group Interdisciplinary Laboratory Image Knowledge Gestaltung, a "Cluster of Excellence" of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Currently, this Cluster is starting the development of a new field of research “Collection & Exhibition”. This major field will connect the history of scientific and academic collections, theory and cultural technic of selection and exhibition, with the challenges faced by science researches and communications now a day. Together with researchers and curators of the Cluster and the center Hermann von Helmholtz Zentrum für Kulturtechnik of the same university, during this 3-month period, Grossman will work on the challenges brought by this new frontier of research, seeking to produce and promote new implication both theoretical and practical over the future of collections and exhibitions. More specifically, it will be intrinsically related to the development of ideas and actions for the integration of the Humboldt-laboratory to the Humboldt-Forum, this new museums being constructed on the Berlin Museum Island, with it’s opening scheduled to 2020.

 

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The Humboldt Forum is a centre for dialogue between world cultures emerging in the heart of Berlin. It will combine the elements of museum, library, university, and major event space under a single roof. In a tightknit alliance of culture, science, and education, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the State of Berlin, and Stiftung Berliner Schloss – Humboldt Forum have already begun testing out innovative forms of cooperation. The Media Conference is meant to serve as a starting signal, launching the shared digital future of the Humboldt Forum.

What We Do

New media will play a special role in the Humboldt Forum. How can they help us investigate the digital and real worlds from different vantage points? How can they foster cultural diversity and help us convey different realities? What will be “state of the art” in the future? What does the digital tomorrow look like in the Humboldt Forum? At the conference, international experts from different disciplines will address these questions critically and with an eye to the future.

Where we’re going

Last but not least, the conference will bring experts into contact with the public, to help plan and develop strategies and standards for the Humboldt Forum’s overarching media concept as well as individual media projects. Follow-up occasions and events on entirely different topics are in the works. We hope your insights too will help influence the Humboldt Forum’s ongoing design process.